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Ready for a black president
The myth of America’s racist past
Electing Obama: how the country says "some of my best friends are black"
Mythmakers
McCain: victim of the old racial gamesmanship?

Ready for a black president
It keeps popping up everywhere this election, this question of America’s readiness for a black president. A Google search on the phrase, in quotes, [...]

Or don’t. There are better sources
The American public’s distaste for and mistrust of the New York Times is understandable. How else would Americans view a paper that would editorially welcome Republicans arriving in town for their 2004 convention with the suggestion they should embrace a policy of amnesty for illegal aliens in order [...]

In May, 2006, Senators John McCain and Ted Kennedy were striving to pass a complex piece of legislation through the Senate. It wasn’t going very well. Opponents of the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act wouldn’t stop calling the bill an amnesty.
When it comes to infuriating the citizenry, nothing works so well as a proposal [...]

2004-08-30
Issue: #202
An editorial in Sunday’s New York Times welcomed Republicans arriving in town for the party’s national convention with some free advice on the immigration issue for GOP campaign strategists.
“If the Republicans want to court moderates and appeal to minority voters like Hispanics,” counseled the Times, the party must embrace an amnesty for illegal aliens, [...]